Hannah Riley describes the scene in the Atlanta courthouse last month when dozens of political activists faced criminal enterprise charges for trying to save a forest from becoming a massive police-training center.
From the National Press Club in Washington D.C. watch the replay of CN‘s Live presentation on Saturday of the Belmarsh Tribunal for imprisoned journalist Julian Assange.
Rachel McKane and David Pellow see Georgia’s RICO indictment as an attempt to repress social movement activity, using the state’s tools of legal interpretation and enforcement.
The most incarcerated country on Earth needs to change its entire criminal justice system. It’s irreparably broken at every level.
Biden, Blinken and Austin are being named in court — as well as in the streets around the world — for their unwavering and illegal support of Israeli genocide, writes Marjorie Cohn.
There is no room to doubt that Israel’s bombing of Palestinian civilians and depriving them of food, water and other necessities of life are grounds to invoke the 1948 Genocide Convention.
After a bid for a public interest defense and classified documents needed for his defense were both denied him, whistleblower David McBride pled guilty to three reduced charges on Friday. Joe Lauria reports.
The Supreme Court’s chief justice denied whistleblower David McBride’s attempt to appeal the trial judge’s decision to deprive him of a public interest defense, reports Joe Lauria.
Judge rules that he will instruct the jury that there is no aspect of duty that allows the accused to act in the public interest contrary to a lawful military order, reports Joe Lauria.
On day two of the David McBride trial, the central question remains: whom does a soldier serve? Joe Lauria reports.
